Improvement in combined pencil cases and sharpeners



A. G. BATCHELDER. v comsmnn PENCIL CASE AND SHAR'PENER. '.No.179,64.-1,Patented Ju1y11.1876.

N.'FE\'ERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ASAHEL Gr. BATUHELDER, OF LOWELL,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED PENCIL CASES AND SHARPENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,641, dated July 11,1876 application filed May 13, 1876.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ASAHEL G. BATCHEL- DER, of Lowell, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulCombined Pencil Sharpener and Case or Shield; and do hereby declare thesame to be fully described in the following specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figures 1 and 2 areside Views, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transversesection, of the article.

In the said drawings, A denotes a pencilsharpener, consisting of a head,to, having within it a conical socket, I), provided with a long slot orchip-discharging mouth, b, in one side of it, and with a knife, 0,disposed with the said mouth, as represented. From the said pencil-sharpener a tubular handle or case, B, projects, asshown, and is slitted,as indicated at d. The pencil-sharpener also has extended from it, inmanner as shown, a short tubular projection, f, the said projectionbeing provided with a flange,'g, at its outer end, and a shoulder, h, atthe base of the sharpener. 0n the said projection is slipped an eraseror tubular block, 0, of india-rubber, which by its inherent elasticityis to tightly fit the tube f, whose outermost diameter corresponds tothat of the mouth of the conical socket b. The

case B not only serves as a handle for bolding the pencil-sharpenerduring the process of sharpening or pointing a pencil or crayon thereby,but it answers as a shield or cover for such point when the pencil isinserted point foremost into the case. Furthermore, the tubularprojection fanswers not only as a means of sustaining the eraser,'bnt asa guide and support for a pencil while it may be in the process of beingpointed by the sharpener.

I claim as my invention as follows:

1. The. pencil-sharpener A, provided with the shoulder h, and theflanged tube f, arranged with its mouth, as set forth.

' 2. The pencil-sharpener, provided with the tube f, shoulder h, andtubular eraser C, arranged with each other and the mouth of saidsharpener, as represented.

3. The combination of the pencil-sharpener A with the eraser G and itssupporter f, arranged at the pencil-receiving mouth of said sharpener,and with the pencil-case B, arranged to project beyond the other end ofsaid sharpener, all being substantially as represented.

ASAHEL G. BATOHELDER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

